bearing his reproach. What does it mean bearing his reproach? The reproach of
Christ is talking about the fact that people will speak badly of you, speak
poorly of you, because you are a Christian. That's what reproach means to
talk bad about. And so Jesus was reproached when he was on the cross. You
know, they're mocking him and saying he trusted on the Lord that he would
deliver him? Let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him. Oh thou that destroys
the temple and buildest it in three days. Come down from the cross that we might
see and believe. And they mocked him and reviled him and ridiculed him. Well guess
what? If you live the Christian life, you're gonna be ridiculed and mocked as
well. They're gonna be people who make fun of you for being a goody-two-shoes
and they make fun of you. Oh you actually believe the Bible? Don't you know that
everything came from nothing and it's been scientifically proven that, you know,
monkeys and apes are all our relatives and we're all animals and we all came
from the same, you know, single-celled organism that we have no idea where that
came from. But I mean it's all been proven by science. You believe in the
Bible? Yes I believe in the Bible. Yes I believe in the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth and I believe that God made man in his own image and that
I'm not an animal. I'm not a beast. I am a human being. I'm a man made in the
image of God. I'm a man in the image of God with a soul and a spirit and you
know what's absurd is believing that everything came from nothing. That is
absurd. It's not science. It's absurd to believe that every single plant and
animal on this planet is related and came from one organism that just poof
appeared out of nowhere. There's not even a theory for how the first organism
appeared. Not even a scientific theory. Not even a working hypothesis. They can't
even show you. Well this is how we think it could have happened. Not even close to
being able to demonstrate that with science. So why would I be ashamed for
believing what the Bible says? Oh you're one of those Baptists? You actually take
the Bible seriously? I mean you actually believe all those stories? Yes I do. Yes I
absolutely do because you know what it's absurd to say oh I believe in Christ. I
believe in Jesus. I believe God created everything. Oh but you know he can't make
a whale swallow a human. That just couldn't happen. If God could speak the
world into existence in six days I think he's gonna be able to prepare a great
fish that could swallow Jonah so that he could be in the belly of the fish for
three days and three nights. I mean you actually believe Jesus walked on water?
No I just believe that he could create the entire world with his voice and I
just believe that he could die and be buried and rise again three days later
but I mean walking on water that's not scientifically possible. That just
defies the laws of science. Folks with God all things are possible. I'm not
ashamed to be Baptist. I'm not ashamed to be a Bible believing Christian. I'm not
ashamed to be a creationist. Hey you ought to be ashamed of this evil and
adulterous generation not ashamed of God and his word and so you know what I'm
willing to bear his reproach as it says at the end of verse 13. They made fun of
him let them make fun of me. They called the master of the house Beelzebub then
you know what let them call me much worse. They hated him let them hate me.
Let me bear his reproach. Where do we bear his reproach? Without the camp. See
here's why some preachers are never persecuted. Here's why some Christians
are never persecuted because you know where they are smack dab in the middle
of the camp. They're within the camp within the mainstream getting along with
everyone trying to fit in and be cool and be like everybody else. I am NOT a cool
preacher. I'm not.